Often, a breastfeeding mother has stagnant milk in her breast, which, in the absence of proper treatment, leads to a serious illness - mastitis. Therefore, if within three days you can not get rid of compaction, you should immediately seek advice from a mammologist.
Symptoms of milk stagnation
A characteristic symptom of milk stagnation in the chest is the appearance of a dense and painful to the touch of the breast. Approximately in 4 - 6 hours from the moment of formation of consolidation in this place reddening of a skin is observed.
As a rule, the reddened skin with the stagnation of milk has an elevated temperature. Soon, after 6 - 8 hours, the body temperature also rises. Similar symptoms indicate the formation of a plug in one of the dairy ducts - lactostasis.
Causes of milk stagnation in the ducts
Among the causes of milk stagnation in nursing mothers note:
- feeding the infant in the same position;
- sleep on one side;
- wearing a tight bra;
- homework with repetitive, same type of hand movements.
Lactostasis can also be caused by:
- chronic lack of sleep and fatigue;
- accustoming the child to a dummy, because of what he begins to take a worse chest;
- increasing the viscosity of milk, because of the entrainment of fatty foods;
- insufficient fluid intake.
Very often, lactostasis is caused by the expressing of milk after each feeding or the wrong grip of the nipple by the baby.
How to dissolve the stagnation of milk?
First of all, continue to put the baby to the chest. Adhere to the correct feeding posture. The nose or chin of the baby should be pointed to the place of compaction. The child must capture almost the entire areola, opening his mouth wide and turning his lips out. During sucking, there should be no smacking of smacks.
So, how to dissolve milk stagnation is desirable immediately after finding a seal, use light massage movements. Massage during milk congestion should be done very carefully.
- First, apply a warm compress to the seal. You can use a towel soaked in hot water. Keep it on your chest for 5 to 10 minutes.
- After that, rub it gently with gentle and gentle movements. The use of baby cream will make the movement more soft and gliding and help to avoid injury to the skin.
- Then, apply a cold compress to the compacted place to remove the swelling of the tissues.
- Express the milk, paying special attention to the clogged lobe of the breast. The ideal option will be applying to the baby's chest.
If there are nipple cracks, do not delay the visit to the mammalog.
Compresses for milk congestion
Suggest how to treat stagnant milk, can traditional medicine. For the effectiveness of procedures, treatment should begin as soon as a seal has been found. Here's what the people's experience recommends when making milk stagnant:
- Use compresses from lightly beaten fresh cabbage leaves. Take care that the cabbage juice does not get on the nipple, it is not very useful for
digestion of the baby. - Mix a little bit of natural honey with rye flour. It should be a mass, in consistence resembling a steep dough. Attach the honey cake to the problem place.
- A cool compress of defatted yogurt acts well on the blocked portion of the breast.
Any compress on the breast area should be kept no more than 20 minutes. It should be remembered that when milk is stagnant, compresses containing camphor and alcohol should not be done. These substances block the work of the breast to produce milk.